Episode 20 dives into GraphQL's surprising second life. Five years after the backlash, GraphQL is quietly powering major architectures at GitHub, Shopify, and Netflix. Lucas and Luna unpack the real reason adoption rebounded — not because of the query language itself, but because of a tiny caching layer called the 'persisted query registry'. They walk through how GitHub cut API latency by 40 percent using persisted queries, why Shopify's storefront API survived Black Friday with zero downtime, and what the new Relay compiler means for frontend teams. If you wrote off GraphQL in 2023, this episode might change your mind. No abstract praise — just the concrete design decisions that made the comeback real.

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